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The Mexican Chefs at Zorba's Greek Restaurant
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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It's hard to come here as an immigrant. You leave everything behind.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
Outside of Jazz Fest
From: Sarah Holtz
Series: New Orleans Street Economy
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Despite strict rules that you can't illicitly sell things outside of Jazz Fest, there is a whole economy that exists just beyond the festival gates...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 04:40
Life of the Law #91: Death on a Dairy
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Arminio Órtiz Pérez, Credit: Eilís O’Neill
Working on a dairy--especially a small dairy--is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, more dangerous even than construction. Over the pas...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 20:18
The Leftovers In A Coal Miner's Lunchbox (Gravy Ep. 44)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Coal miner Ronnie Johnson, with his lunchbox.
For decades, Ronnie Johnson woke up in the late afternoon, and fixed a lunch to bring with him 2,000 feet underground, as he worked all night in a ...

Bought by WMMT, KVLU, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 31:48
  • Purchases: 4
The Pull of Pollo: How the Chicken Industry Transformed One Arkansas Town (Gravy Ep. 30)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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This is the story of Springdale, Arkansas, and how chicken transformed a once-sleepy rural town into the most ethnically diverse city in the state—...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 21:15
  • Purchases: 2
Pesticides on the Playground
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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How safe your children are might depend on where you live. Today we hear about how one pesticide has been banned for household use, but affects the...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Bunch of Boats in the Boatyard
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Organizing the Maine Lobstering Union

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 2
Farmer Confession Booth I
From: Cassie Wagler
Caption: My Sign and I
Farmers in upstate New York enter a confession booth (ahem, van) and give anonymous answers to probing questions. Produced for WIOX "The Farm Hou...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
Chip
From: Schuyler Swenson
Caption: Chip Koser in his workshop.
Chip Koser of Mashpee is a professionally trained chef who’s worked in a number of famous restaurants. But in recent years Chip has been spending l...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 31, 2013
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2
The Umami of Customer Service
From: Veronica Simmonds
Caption: Customers
We all know how sweet it is when our appetites are satisfied, but what's it like to be a satiator?

  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:53
Harold Wright: Five generations on once-tobacco land
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Harold Wright is the third generation farming on land his grandfather bought in the 1900's. His children and grandchildren farm with him. It was on...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
Young Farmers Sustainable Agriculture Tool Lending Library
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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This is the story of the incredible project: sustainable agriculture tool lending library. Led by farmer couple George (self-declared rap listening...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 2
Horse Collar Farm: many generations on one farm & new project of free-range poultry
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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This story is about Shannon Roberts. He lives in Western North Carolina and runs Horse Collar Farm. His family has farmed the same land for five ge...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 1
Purple Sweet Potatoes in North Carolina
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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A story of the two men who run Stokes County's Saura Pride Purple Sweet Potato LLC and how these sweet potatoes are saving tobacco farmers in the c...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 1
Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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The Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative is based out of Moore County. The mission is to meet local food needs with local food and that happens, in ...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 1
New Town Farms, Poultry-processing facility
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Sammy Koenigsberg lives in Waxhaw, North Carolina and runs New Town Farms with the help of his family. Sammy built a poultry processing facility on...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 1
Piedmont Local Foods: love & success between farmers, consumers, and the internet
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Piedmont Local Food is a regional food/farmer project involving multiple counties, connecting farmers directly to consumers with the internet. A st...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
OakMoon Farm & Creamery, Agritourism
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Cynthia Sharpe and Dwain Swing run OakMoon Farm & Creamery in Bakersville, North Carolina. They've increased the agri-tourism aspect of their farm,...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 1
Transitioning 40 acres of tobacco land to organic vegetables
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Matthew Garrett's a 24-year-old farmer, pretty much single-handedly transitioning a 40 acre tobacco farm to organic produce. He's in the second yea...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
Kay Doby & her meat goats
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Kay Doby, is a fourth generation farmer raised on tobacco land. Once a contract poultry grower, she now raises meat goats in her empty chicken hous...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:12
  • Purchases: 1
Growing Pomegranates in North Carolina
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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John Shaw plans to be the first commercial pomegranate grower in North Carolina. He has over 300 pomegranate trees. He has also planted 250 apple t...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:55
Hmong Farmer Jefferson Herr, Year-round heated Greenhouse project
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Meet Jefferson Herr. With his family, Jefferson runs Herr Flower Farm in Vale, North Carolina. Flower farming has become very common in Hmong commu...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Goat Lady CSA
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Steve Tate runs the Goat Lady Dairy in Climax, North Carolina. Last year was the first year of the farm's CSA. Steve learned that he grew way too m...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 1
Firefly Farm, Multi-purpose Barn
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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Elizabeth Gibbs and Scott Paquin run Firefly Farm in Burnsville, North Carolina. They're building a multi-purpose barn which will house hay for the...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 1
The American Prawn Cooperative
From: Rural Advancement Radio
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The American Prawn Cooperative (APC) is "writing the book on the prawn industry." The APC is based in Greene County, North Carolina, and Greene Cou...

Bought by WSOE 89.3


  • Added: Sep 12, 2011
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 1